1/28 A lengthy discussion on the Ilhan Omar apple cider vinegar incident from last night

Summary

Garage Logic - January 28, 2026 Episode Summary: Lengthy discussion on the Ilhan Omar apple cider vinegar incident

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the bizarre and headline-grabbing incident involving Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis, where an attendee sprayed her with a substance later identified as apple cider vinegar. The hosts—Joe Soucheray ("The Mayor"), Chris Reivers, Kenny Olson, Matthew, and John Heidt—delve deeply into the incident, airing theories, scrutinizing media coverage, debating conspiracy vs. reality, and questioning the increasingly surreal nature of public discourse. The conversation is full of skepticism, humor, and the show's signature mixture of cynicism and down-to-earth Midwestern perspective.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Incident: What Exactly Happened?

• [06:07] Ilhan Omar was holding a town hall when a man (initially called "Kamarchik," later clarified as Anthony Kazmierczyk) shot her with a syringe-like device containing a foul-smelling liquid, striking her clothes but not her skin.

  • The man was "wobbly," and "looked hammered" (Chris Reivers, [07:59]), and was immediately arrested.
  • The liquid was confirmed later via a police update and news reports as apple cider vinegar ([62:01]).

• Omar’s Reaction: She was "not injured," showed "no fear," and finished her remarks at the event. She later commented online: “I’m a survivor, so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.” ([13:00])

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2. Skepticism and Speculation: Stunt or Real Attack?

• Joe Soucheray suggests the entire incident appeared staged:

  • “I'm sorry. I don't buy this. I don't buy this at all. I think all of this was staged.” ([09:23])
  • Raises suspicion that Omar gave the man a "now’s the time" nod before the attack ([11:02]).

• The crew debates whether Omar could or would orchestrate such an event:

  • Chris Reivers: “Do you seriously think she’s above pulling off a stunt like this?” ([12:01])
  • Kenny Olson adds: “I don’t think she set it up because she knows she’s under a microscope and she knows that she’d get caught.” ([15:20])

• Comparison to conspiracy thinking:

  • The hosts compare this to initial wild theories around the Paul Pelosi incident ([39:03]), noting how easily conspiracy takes hold when public information is unclear.

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3. Alternative Explanations: Who is the Attacker?

• Deep dive into Anthony Kazmierczyk’s background:

  • Described as "pretty conservative" according to his neighbor, had “far left gender pronoun stuff” online but also MAGA-like posts (John Heidt, [22:53]).
  • Was medicated due to Parkinson's; this may have contributed to his behavior ([24:02]).

• Neighbor reports Kazmierczyk said he "might get arrested" before leaving for the town hall ([23:32]).

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4. The Broader Problem: Mistrust, Conspiracy, and Media

• The hosts reflect on how nothing seems straightforward anymore:

  • Chris Reivers: “We've long since passed the point where nothing is as it seems… It’s just as likely as not that this screwball showed up… or there’s something deeper.” ([24:02])
  • Discusses the fun and danger of conspiracy theories, noting how national media seize on and amplify these ideas ([25:24]).

• Joe Soucheray: “We've never been through such strange times. That is undeniable in my history on Earth.” ([28:04])

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5. Local vs. National Response & Law Enforcement

• Minneapolis Police confirm the FBI is now leading the investigation ([49:38]).
• Discussion about federal involvement in local events, and the community’s reactions.

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6. Media Coverage and Political Spin

• Review of right-wing radio and national outlets running with conspiracy, often with factual errors ([25:35], [28:34]).
• Mention of President Trump publicly agreeing with conspiracy theories about the stunt—with more certainty than evidence ([12:09]).

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7. Critical Reflection on the Reaction

• Why did Omar not seek immediate medical attention if the attack was real?

  • Joe Soucheray: “Why wasn’t she immediately taken to the hospital for an examination?” ([16:49])

• Is the attacker's act worth a five-year felony?

  • Would someone take that risk for a staged event? ([14:40], [36:52])

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8. The Social Atmosphere: Decline and Softness

• Broader lament about “softness” of society, inability to cope with hardship, and rampant reliance on others—a recurring theme in Garage Logic ([33:00], [75:23]).
• Digressions comparing mail carriers’ toughness in past centuries to "soft" attitudes today ([74:00]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Joe Soucheray ([09:23]): “I'm sorry. I don't buy this. I don't buy this at all. I think all of this was staged.”
• Chris Reivers ([12:09]): “Trump, without evidence, is saying Omar staged an incident during her town hall... Even you have more evidence than the President because he didn’t even see the video.”
• John Heidt ([22:53]): “His neighbor... said he's a pretty conservative guy and has said he doesn't like Omar... Kazmierczyk was heavily medicated due to a car accident [and] Parkinson's disease.”
• Chris Reivers ([24:02]): “We’re not accepting anything. Nothing is what it appears to be. We always have to find some hidden messages in it.”
• Kenny Olson ([15:20]): “She is a conniving shys and just as dirty as the day is long. I don’t think she set it up because... she’d get caught.”
• John Heidt ([40:06]): “What this is is some crackpot trying to shoot her with some bug juice out of a squirt gun.”
• Chris Reivers ([49:38]): “The Minneapolis Police Department has now said that the FBI has taken over the lead in investigating this entire incident with Ilhan Omar being sprayed.”
• Joe Soucheray ([75:23]): “You get your ass out there, pal, and deliver the mail. Why do you think I hold you in reverence?”
• Matthew ([33:00]): “We've become... soft.”
• Chris Reivers ([28:04]): “We've never been through such strange times. That is undeniable in my history on Earth.”

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Key Timestamps for Major Segments

• [06:07] — Introduction of the Ilhan Omar incident
• [09:23] — Soucheray's assertion the attack might be staged
• [12:09] — Discussion of Trump’s comments and media parallels
• [14:40] — Laws and consequences for the attacker; conspiracy plausibility
• [22:53] — Analysis of the attacker's social media and neighbors
• [24:02] — Larger discussion about trust in public events and narratives
• [25:24] — The fun and risk of conspiracy theories in media
• [33:00] — The culture of softness and reliance on others
• [49:38] — FBI takes over the investigation
• [62:01] — Confirmation the substance was apple cider vinegar

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Tone & Approach

• The show continues its usual irreverent, skeptical tone mingled with nostalgia for hardier times and biting political commentary.
• Hosts walk a line between playful conspiracy speculation and caution about fueling harmful rumors.
• The episode is highly conversational with each host trying to outdo the other’s zinger or analogy, while occasionally stepping back to reflect more seriously.

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Takeaways

• The panel is united in skepticism but split between believing the event was a random act by a "crackpot" and suspicions of potential staging or political theater.
• They critique media on both sides for quick takes, factual errors, and playing up conspiracies.
• Underneath the humor, there’s anxiety about the state of discourse and the public’s capacity to discern reality.
• Amidst societal critique (“softness”), there’s a longing for common sense and reliability.
• The incident stays unresolved—mirroring the uncertainty the hosts see in today’s world.

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In the words of Chris Reivers ([24:02]):
“We’re not accepting anything. Nothing is what it appears to be. We always have to find some hidden messages in it.”

And as Joe Soucheray sums up ([36:51]):
“We just don’t know anymore what’s real. We just don’t know. And it’s incredibly frustrating.”

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End of summary

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Hail the Flashlight King.

[Chris Reivers]

And now from the mayor's office above the boathouse on the east shore of Spoon Lake, it's Garage Logic with Chris Reavers manning technology corner, Kenny Olson from the Crabby Coffee Shop, John Height in the newsroom, and of course, the Here is your Flashlight King fireworks commissioner and the keeper of common sense, your mayor, Joe Sushore. Can I give you a theory that just occurred to me this morning? I think what gave Minnesota its image and its initial national notoriety was I've noticed a lot of cold temperature records are in the 1880s. They had a cold spell there in the 80s. So I'm thinking it was considered to be so cold here that people took notice and were wondering, how can you people even live there?

[Matthew]

Not determining whether they come here or not. They're just saying, we know what's it like there.

[Chris Reivers]

You really got it cold. And then James J. Hill, to counter his east coast buddies, started the winter carnival to show you, to show people, look, we could be outside. We build ice castles and we go skiing and what have you. That's just my theory. I'm going to end it right there because I have nowhere to go with it. But I think Minnesota got its cliched stamp in the rest of the country in the 19th century.

[Matthew]

That's my okay, and I will correct myself. I don't think James J. Hill thought his east coast buddies thought this was flyoverland because he really hadn't furthered airplane.

[Kenny Olson]

I thought he came from airline travel.

[Chris Reivers]

I know he was. He had a place in Canada. He had yachts on the Great Lakes. I don't know if he was from.

[Matthew]

Canada, but he would have just said it's, it's drive over land or.

[Chris Reivers]

I was really looking forward to, to talking to Daniel Strand. He wrote a piece for a substack called First Things. We mentioned it last week. He wrote a piece called the Banality of Minnesota Fraud. And I wanted to talk to him because it turns out in that piece he alluded to the fact that he's from here, he's from Minneapolis. I had never heard of him. He's an ethics professor. I can tell you where. He's an assistant professor of ethics at the Air War College and ethics chair for Air University. I'm assuming that means airplane type stuff. I don't know. Anyway, he was sent the link. So not only were we going to talk to him, he would have been able to see it. And something has become amiss. Something fell through.

[Joe Sushore]

We're hoping that we can establish a connection with Mr. Strand.

[Kenny Olson]

Who are we blaming at this point?

[Chris Reivers]

That's the most important thing. No Reavers.

[Joe Sushore]

Yeah, I'll take it. That's fine.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm blaming Reavers.

[Kenny Olson]

There's Matthew. Do you have a part in this?

[Matthew]

After decades of taking the blame, I'm happy to pass it along.

[Joe Sushore]

I've carried the torch.

[Matthew]

Thank you.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you.

[Matthew]

You're welcome. The Olympic torch.

[Chris Reivers]

Ilhan Omar was in town yesterday and she had a town hall meeting. No, we're not doing an Ilhan Omar update.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, we are.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

I didn't think that.

[Chris Reivers]

Why are you here? Why are you in town?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, it's an interesting story.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't want to. Ilhan Omar report on garage lodging.

[Kenny Olson]

It is long.

[Chris Reivers]

We don't need it. It's a long story. Ilhan Omar was at a town hall giving a town hall meeting, and some moron in the audience stood up and shot a syringe full of an unknown liquid at her. It didn't hit her face or anything. It seemed to hit her outfit that she had on. And that's all I know. He's been arrested. Well, we know his name, don't we? Yeah, we know his name. Kamarchik. Good Polish fellow.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushore]

The Sausage family.

[Chris Reivers]

I could be Sausage King in Chicago.

[John Heights]

It's spelled different. Oh, Kazimiercheck is how it's spelled.

[Matthew]

Like this.

[Chris Reivers]

It isn't even in the story I have. He's not even mentioned. But he is mentioned or identified in other stories.

[Kenny Olson]

But it was one of those syringes he used to shoot, like medicine down a dog's mouth. Right. It didn't have a needle on it.

[Chris Reivers]

I have no idea.

[Kenny Olson]

Do we know what the substance.

[Matthew]

I know you're talking about. It has that open. Yeah, that opened end.

[Kenny Olson]

Was it a bodily fluid?

[Chris Reivers]

It was. It had a foul smell, sometimes described as vinegar. It did not seem that Ilhan. First of all, she was not injured, thank goodness. Secondly, she did not seem terribly concerned about what the properties of the liquid might have been because she continued to finish her talk, went right back to the podium.

[Matthew]

Which black helicopter.

[Chris Reivers]

No, I'm not going anywhere near a black helicopter. I'm. I. I think that she got to me. The guy looked hammered by the way he did. He couldn't. He couldn't even hold his feet. He was wobbly and. And he approached the. Yes, you in the back.

[Joe Sushore]

Can I go Colombo on it for just a minute?

[Kenny Olson]

Would you have to get hammered in order to work up the nerve to take. To do your part in a conspiracy.

[Matthew]

To care enough, probably.

[Joe Sushore]

Here's my question for this Mr. Is it, are we pronouncing it Kamarchuk? Is that what we're doing? Or should we just say the unknown sausage guy?

[Chris Reivers]

Let's go with Kazmierczyk.

[Joe Sushore]

If the sausage guy is sitting in the front row, that to me is red flag number one.

[Matthew]

Well, I think he came around from the side.

[Joe Sushore]

No, no, no, no. He had a seat right in front of the podium.

[Chris Reivers]

He had a seat.

[Joe Sushore]

And I found a video of Ms. Omar. And again, I am not alleging anything whatsoever. I think everything's on the up and up here. However, when you see the young man get out of the chair right before that, she looks at him while he's still seated.

[Matthew]

You are. You're full on child.

[Joe Sushore]

And apparently to the point where she lifts her chin up to kind of give him the Now's the time. Because it was after a direct statement from Omar.

[Kenny Olson]

The up nod.

[Matthew]

Yeah. Ready?

[Joe Sushore]

I'm sorry. I don't buy this. I don't buy this at all. I think all of this was staged. And coincidentally, I know it's on the same day in which the Department of Justice launched a new investigation into her and her husband's winery.

[Matthew]

Because if it's a random thing, you would.

[Chris Reivers]

Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Joe Sushore]

Just keep looking at your shoes and what's happening.

[Chris Reivers]

Wait a minute.

[John Heights]

A lot of Mrs. Information.

[Chris Reivers]

Wait a minute. The examination of Omar's finances began in 2024 under the Biden Department of Justice. They haven't done anything, have they? And nothing's been discovered, but I, I, I'm not sure it was. Anything happened yesterday regarding your finances?

[John Heights]

Actually, on Monday, the president mentioned it. So the day before.

[Joe Sushore]

Oh, and I'm, I'm sure that she.

[Chris Reivers]

Which I think is a wonderful topic to get to the bottom of, and I wish somebody would. There's not a chance in hell this woman went from owning $12 to be suddenly worth $33 million.

[Joe Sushore]

Oh, I totally think she's on the up.

[Kenny Olson]

Were you guys surprised that it kind of looked like she was going to.

[Chris Reivers]

Go after the guy that I was going to mention? Kenny. That surprised me.

[Matthew]

She, she looked intently at him as.

[Kenny Olson]

If she, she took off after him.

[Chris Reivers]

She took off. She was headed for. And then wiser heads prevailed.

[Kenny Olson]

I think the wiser heads had him pretty much wrapped up in a bear hug.

[Joe Sushore]

Let me play something for you.

[Kenny Olson]

When she took off.

[Joe Sushore]

This is the slowed down video of Ms. Omar standing at the podium. All right.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I ask you something?

[Joe Sushore]

It's a seven second clip.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I ask you who's gonna see it? I was gonna say, what good does this do?

[Kenny Olson]

A.

[Joe Sushore]

Just listen to me. I'm gonna tell you the exact point where she looks at the guy right before he gets out of his chair.

[Chris Reivers]

Design or face impeachment.

[Joe Sushore]

So as she says impeachment, she looks directly at him and gives him the up nod. It's indisputable. You can see it in both the reality.

[Chris Reivers]

You showed it to me, I saw it.

[Joe Sushore]

Slowed down version of the video.

[Matthew]

I do prefer shoe throwing. Like President Bush when after he dodged too, he said, that's all you have is two feet. I bet you wish you had more.

[Chris Reivers]

He dodged it pretty good. He did. And it didn't stop him.

[Matthew]

That's all you got.

[Joe Sushore]

No, I get it. I'm the tinfoil hat guy on the show. I get that. And I wear that badge proudly. Do you got. Let me ask you, all four of you, an honest question. Do you seriously think she's above pulling off a stunt like this?

[Chris Reivers]

Can I just. Before I answer that, can I tell you that your president, the President of the United States, absolutely agrees with you?

[Kenny Olson]

Well, then it's true.

[Chris Reivers]

Trump, without evidence, is saying Omar staged an incident during her town hall Tuesday night with a man spraying her with an unknown substance. When asked if he had seen the video of the incident, the president said, I haven't seen it, but that wouldn't stop.

[Joe Sushore]

No, no.

[Kenny Olson]

That's so awesome.

[Joe Sushore]

He was briefed.

[Chris Reivers]

No, no. He said, no, no. I hope I don't have to bother.

[Kenny Olson]

I love that.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. A live stream of the town hall showed the man standing and yelling at Omar, who was calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment after two fatal shootings. The subject was tackled and arrested after spraying the lawmaker. Omar continued with the town hall after the incident saying, these bleeping bleepers are not going to get away with it. And she used some. Some profanity there. She wrote later Tuesday on her social media account, I'm okay. I'm a survivor, so this small agitator isn't going to intimidate me from doing my work. The Minneapolis police confirmed that it's a 55 year old man named Anthony Kazmierchik. That's how I'll see it, I guess. Using a syringe to spray an unknown liquid. The man was immediately arrested by MPD officers and booked into Hennepin county jail for third degree assault. Omar was uninjured and resumed speaking at the event. Minnesota forensic scientists responded to process the scene. U.S. capitol Police called the incident an unacceptable decision that will be met with swiss with swift justice. They also said they have investigated nearly 15,000 concerning comments, behaviors and communications directed against members of Congress. In 2024, the Capitol Police investigated nearly 9,500 such cases. And there you have it. Your president has weighed in reivers and he happens to be of your mind. But even you have more evidence than the President because he didn't even see the video.

[Joe Sushore]

That's all right, Don. You're welcome to the team. But answer my question. You four, do you think she's above something like this?

[John Heights]

May I say?

[Joe Sushore]

Yeah.

[John Heights]

Now if we're assuming this is some sort of conspiracy, somehow he got charged with third degree felony. He. That's a five year sentence in Minnesota. So we have to say okay, I agree, I'll do it. But I. Then I'll sit five years in prison. You're going to give me some money or what?

[Joe Sushore]

But you're assuming, John, that he is not going to take a plea arrangement.

[John Heights]

You're.

[Joe Sushore]

You're assuming that he's actually going to.

[John Heights]

Serve five years then he was too assuming that, right?

[Joe Sushore]

Sure.

[Matthew]

Okay.

[Joe Sushore]

Again, I don't believe a word or anything that comes out of this mouth.

[John Heights]

If. If you go to his social media, his political leanings would say he would not like Ilhan Omar.

[Kenny Olson]

I can tell you why she didn't set it up and I'm not. She is a conniving shys and just as dirty as the day is long. I don't think she set it up because she knows she's under a microscope and she knows that she'd get caught. And that's why I don't think she.

[Matthew]

Set it up because there would be some type of trail that would hitch her to that.

[Joe Sushore]

This is a story we will have to follow under the same guise as the feeding our future because I don't believe a word of this story.

[Kenny Olson]

Now if we were on a national conservative radio show right now, Joe, with affiliates all over the country, what would we say?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I'm not going to say what we'd say, so I don't want to be. Here's the position we're in. We can't be party to bringing anyone harm. Of course I've said rough things about Kenny. Just finished a sentence of rough talk about her.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, that was bad.

[Chris Reivers]

I. I've Thought I've, I think poorly of her. I, I, I can't possibly imagine that she and I would ever agree on anything. But I think it gets to the point where you can't even talk about these people anymore. I don't want to be party to this, to her getting some vile liquid sprayed on her. Yes, you in the back.

[Joe Sushore]

Is it the line? You know, just one more thing.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Joe Sushore]

If. Let's just say this wasn't a setup, I'll go along to ask my question. Let's just say this was a crackpot trying to do harm to Ilhan Omar. And let's just say the chemical irritant sprayed upon her was hazardous to her health. Why wasn't she immediately taken to the hospital for an examination? Instead, she goes right back to the podium to finish her thoughts. Because she didn't sense any danger whatsoever.

[Matthew]

That's a good point.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, none of the fluid hit her skin.

[Joe Sushore]

No, but it went right on her skin.

[Matthew]

As a precautionary measure.

[Joe Sushore]

As a precautionary measure.

[Matthew]

That part I do agree with.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, you got the forensic people around the scene.

[Joe Sushore]

Oh, really?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, afterwards.

[John Heights]

Yeah.

[Kenny Olson]

But I, I know what you're saying, Joe. You don't want to add to the noise. Are we doing, Are we doing good? Are we doing any good here? And by.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, sure as hell. We're not going to ignore this today, right?

[Matthew]

No, but your point is?

[Kenny Olson]

We're adding to the.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm not adding a thing. I got a screwball who is.

[Matthew]

And what you're saying is. Yes, you have disagreed with many a politician. I've never advocated for her.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't think highly of her at all. That doesn't mean I would ever want her to be attacked by some crackpot.

[Joe Sushore]

And neither do I. I want that clear. I don't want her attacked either. I'm just saying it's.

[Chris Reivers]

We have to quit being party to the party.

[Kenny Olson]

What?

[Chris Reivers]

Not, we have to quit being party to the sounds. Where's the party? Well, I mean, we need to report.

[Matthew]

If she's got a crackpot throwing stuff at us.

[Chris Reivers]

We just did. Beyond that, anything we say is just our, our feelings about her that we've expressed over the years. We created an Ilhan Omar update. We, we find her troubling in many ways. But the problem with the current world is that there are too many people that are taking action without, without much thinking. This guy. I don't know what to make of this guy. He looked like he was half bombed. He was wobbling and wavering on his Feet. And he. It was just ridiculous. And I've never seen someone in that position like Omar. She wanted to go after the guy. Now that's either really legitimate on her part. She's a tough gal. Or. Or whatever. I don't want to talk about the or whatevers. I can't take this anymore.

[Kenny Olson]

This.

[Chris Reivers]

This town is so where. This state is so screwed up. I'm. Yes. Screwed up. What? Just a minute.

[Matthew]

How screwed up is it?

[Chris Reivers]

No, Matt, you blew it.

[Joe Sushore]

I need you to do an answer.

[Chris Reivers]

I thought you wanted one of these.

[Matthew]

Yes.

[Joe Sushore]

Which requires you to give us precision garage Rookie.

[Matthew]

You blew it thing back.

[Kenny Olson]

This is real magic. Just.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, you can go sit in your truck.

[Kenny Olson]

Can I smoke?

[Chris Reivers]

Did you see what he was eating here?

[Joe Sushore]

No.

[Kenny Olson]

I brought you a couple of open faced sandwiches.

[Chris Reivers]

He had some meat Cheetos with a hunk of cheese on it. No bread or anything.

[Kenny Olson]

It was pony.

[Chris Reivers]

No bread.

[Matthew]

I don't know if I can fault him for that.

[Joe Sushore]

I.

[Kenny Olson]

There was bread. It was.

[Chris Reivers]

He had a plastic tub of something vile.

[Kenny Olson]

It was open face sandwiches with Cheetos and some cottage cheese.

[Announcer]

Honest to God, throw me a curve.

[Matthew]

With the cottage cheese. But I. Open faced bologna sandwich with Cheetos. Let me see your fingers.

[Kenny Olson]

No, I brought a paper towel. I cleaned up afterwards. You know what is.

[Matthew]

What I cannot fault him for that.

[Kenny Olson]

Is more Americana than bringing your own lunch to work.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I know, but most people, you know, use a knife and fork. They have some bread, bring in some. Maybe a potato.

[Matthew]

He's got 10 digits.

[Joe Sushore]

That's just. Why 10, 15.

[Chris Reivers]

You can. You can just be quiet and maybe you could try to find our guest.

[Announcer]

Damn it.

[Joe Sushore]

I knew I was going to get ripped.

[Matthew]

You got to quit calling attention to yourself today. Oh, and a Christmas.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Sushore]

I need to ask the newsman a question. Yes, Johnny, you said something about this character's social media account? Yeah, well, our loyal G Kelsey just sent me one in which. Hold on, let me pull it up here. It's Andrew. Or on social media it says Drew Kazmirichek, or however we're pronouncing it. And apparently he has far left gender pronoun stuff all over his social media.

[John Heights]

In his social media, Kazmier Check had views similar to those of typical mega influencers. Under a Facebook profile using the name Andy, he criticized the Biden administration, compared former President Biden to Looney Tunes character Elmer Fudd. Shared posts from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. He showed support for Ukraine and its war with Russia. He also shared images including his dog and Israeli flag. Even US President Donald Trump at Turning Point USA event following Charlie Kirk's assassination. In his Facebook bio, Kazmier Check describes himself as an empty nester looking to enjoy retirement. The second half of my adventure. His neighbor, this from the New York Post, Brian Kelly said he's a pretty conservative guy and has said he doesn't like Omar.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[John Heights]

Kelly said after, because Meerchik asked him to watch his dog before the event. He said, I'm going to this Omar thing. I'm like, Omar what? He said this town hall thing. And I said. And he said I might get arrested. Kelly told the New York Post. Kelly also said, I figured it was nonsense. He wasn't going there. He also said Kazmierchik was heavily medicated. Joe, as you said, he looked maybe.

[Chris Reivers]

I thought he was medicated with Schlitz.

[John Heights]

He was heavily medicated due to a car accident nine years ago that affected his spine and that he suffers from Parkinson's disease.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, well, that explains his wobbling. All right, here's where we are fol, folks. We've long since passed the point where nothing is as it seems. We're not accepting anything. We're not accepting anything. Nothing is what it appears to be. We always have to find some hidden messages in it. It's just as likely it as not that this screwball showed up at the town hall and said, I'm gonna get her. He's got a syringe full of vinegar or whatever the hell he's got in it. He squirts her. He gets arrested, he leaves. That could be just what it is. What it is. I was listening this morning. I had to run errands. I was out on the road, and I was listening to a nationally syndicated talk show host. And they were really. He and his. His mates were really drumming up the conspiracy theories that they insist are overriding the whole Minnesota ICE situation. And the problem. You know what the problem is with most conspiracy theories? They're fun.

[Kenny Olson]

What was the conspiracy theory?

[Chris Reivers]

The conspiracy theory is that these ICE protests in Minnesota are all carefully choreographed.

[Kenny Olson]

That's gaining national traction.

[Chris Reivers]

Right.

[Kenny Olson]

And local news or not local, national news, legitimate news outlets are covering it. That. That. Joe.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, to continue my thought, but I listened to this, and the fellow had so many incorrect facts. He had addresses wrong, and he had buildings where they weren't talking about the metro area. And there were just dozens of facts that were just factually incorrect. But the larger point was that many of the nationally syndicated guys are perfectly willing to accept that there's a very deep conspiracy here involving something called Signal Chat. And that Peggy Flanagan is in it and that other prominent officials are in on it, including state reps. And that apparently these people send signals to each other. And that Alex Preddy, for example, is a known provocateur who three weeks ago had his ribs broken in a confrontation with ICE officials, and that he was there as part of.

[John Heights]

A.

[Chris Reivers]

Part of a specific plan that was in place for that Saturday morning. And on and on and on and on, and it just never ends. Nothing can ever be what it is. And you're left with two thoughts. It either is a conspiracy or it isn't. Well, that was.

[Matthew]

Thank you, Larry Fitzgerald, Question of the day.

[Chris Reivers]

Appreciate that, but I'm.

[Matthew]

I'm really on the fence.

[Chris Reivers]

That came out wrong.

[Matthew]

I know, I know, but I know what you're saying.

[Joe Sushore]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

No, I don't think you do, because I'm not sure I don't. Okay.

[Matthew]

You decide.

[Joe Sushore]

Wait a minute.

[Matthew]

Run that by me again.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, The question of the day, it becomes. It reaches a point where you end up not being surprised if it turns out to be a conspiracy, while yet clinging to the idea that it probably isn't.

[John Heights]

Okay.

[Kenny Olson]

Down.

[Chris Reivers]

Calcutta. Clipper.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

No, my point is. You know.

[Joe Sushore]

What's your point?

[Chris Reivers]

We've never been through such strange times. That is undeniable in my history on Earth. And that takes in, you know, the Vietnam War and Watergate and Bill Clinton, and it takes in a lot of stuff.

[Matthew]

But what you just said. Are you talking about things that are reported are not politically fact checked? And that's where somebody said, well, the.

[Chris Reivers]

Guy I heard today just was physically incorrect on addresses, buildings, you know, just. And then right where Renee Goode got killed happened to be in front of a building that held 80 Somali companies, you know. No, it didn't. There weren't any buildings on that block.

[Kenny Olson]

But you were talking about the insurgency part of it. And that was brought up, I think it was late last week by an old Green Beret, Eric Schwalm. I think I'm pronouncing his name right on Twitter. And he wrote a long piece about how what he sees going on in Minneapolis is akin to what he saw with insurgencies when he was not only in the Special Forces, but when he worked with the government after, afterwards, all.

[Chris Reivers]

These ladies out there with their funny hats and their mittens and their scarves, are you telling me that they're part of an organized group?

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not telling you that.

[Chris Reivers]

No. I'm asking rhetorically.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah, that's the talk in the country right now. Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

But I find that hard to believe.

[Matthew]

Because people couldn't keep their mouth shut or there would be a paper trail to say.

[Kenny Olson]

And that's where the. What's the name of their network?

[Matthew]

Joe Signal.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, Signal Chat.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. And that is a real thing. And that's what was going on. But when I hear about that Signal Chat, I always, always think about the people that report for work in other parts of the world where their main job is to just F things up.

[Chris Reivers]

Get on the Internet.

[Matthew]

Where's Antifa? Is it antifa?

[Kenny Olson]

Get on the Internet and just start effing things up.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. One guy couldn't do it because the world's too big. But is there a room.

[Kenny Olson]

That's what I'm saying.

[Chris Reivers]

In a cave in Switzerland where there's 10 guys.

[Kenny Olson]

It's not even a cave.

[Chris Reivers]

At computer banks. And they're manipulating everything that's happening in the world.

[Kenny Olson]

That's what my fear is. Do you remember we call them bots?

[John Heights]

Yeah. Two, three months ago. I was just gonna say, do you remember the story where all the stuff was coming from? That is, you know, 80% of it that is posted on Twitter, on Facebook, etc. It's not coming from real humans.

[Kenny Olson]

Right.

[John Heights]

Do you remember that story?

[Chris Reivers]

You don't remember that story? Well, who's running that?

[John Heights]

Well, Russia, China.

[Kenny Olson]

But in this case, John, this Eric Schwalm dude, he's a real guy.

[John Heights]

Yeah, I know he is.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, well, would you agree with this? At the rate the United States is disassembling.

[Kenny Olson]

That's a good way of putting it.

[Chris Reivers]

It's disassembling, unfortunately. Our enemies, presumably Russia and China, for example, are they laughing? Are they giving each other the wink and a nod? Watch these. Watch what we do next week. And watch these.

[John Heights]

Watch.

[Matthew]

What's their end game.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, we'd be so easy to take over right now. You don't need a bullet, you don't need a weapon of any kind. Just turn their electricity off.

[John Heights]

That's the old Khrushchev line, remember?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. They're responsible from within.

[John Heights]

Yeah, well, destroy the US without firing a shot.

[Chris Reivers]

You don't have to.

[John Heights]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Don'T look at him.

[Matthew]

I have all the answers.

[Chris Reivers]

I heard some people on the national news radio version. Apparently a lot of people in Tennessee will just pick a state. They've lost their power because of this latest winter storm.

[Joe Sushore]

Ice. Right, Right. Ice storms.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, well, ice with a lowercase ice.

[John Heights]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

And many of them are without heat. And they interviewed people, one of whom said, we don't know what to do. I'm not. I'm quoting. Almost exactly. We don't know what to do.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

We. We have no heat. We don't know what to do.

[John Heights]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Jesus, Bell, you know, burn your house down if you have to. Just get warm.

[Kenny Olson]

How many people in this state are in that position?

[Chris Reivers]

Many.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah. That's the frightening part.

[Chris Reivers]

We've become. I don't know what we've become, but it's.

[Joe Sushore]

We've become. I can tell you, soft.

[Chris Reivers]

It's become ridiculous. It's soft.

[Joe Sushore]

But we've also become too reliant upon somebody else to take care of our issues.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushore]

And by the way, it ain't getting any better anytime soon, because the next generation that's coming are even worse than the ones that are in control now.

[Kenny Olson]

Now, imagine the entire. Oh, God, I love this topic, don't I, John? Imagine the entire grid shut down and you can't even pump gas or fuel.

[Chris Reivers]

You're done.

[Kenny Olson]

That means you're generating.

[Matthew]

To pay you a visit, boy. Coming to pay you a visit.

[Joe Sushore]

We're all staying at Uncle Kenny's.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, is all of this. What we're experiencing, the unrest in the streets, is that. Is that all a prelude to something? Because this doesn't. None of this makes sense. Nothing makes sense.

[Kenny Olson]

The thing they're in, it too the horrible America they want to create, they have to live in, too. They're not going to prosper.

[Chris Reivers]

Unless they imagine themselves behind heavily fortified gates.

[Kenny Olson]

They don't have that.

[Matthew]

You mean like Red dawn? Where? China.

[Kenny Olson]

And they don't have that.

[Chris Reivers]

I know I brought this up a million times. One of the first guys who listened to GL was that history professor at the U. And 30 years ago, he predicted all this. He said, you'll first see it in Los Angeles, where the elite will live in the hills surrounded by gates, and it'll be an increasingly dystopian situation on the valley floor beneath them. He called John somebody. We've been through this before. We can't find him. No, no, we can't. We can't find him. We looked him up in the roster of history profess John Evans.

[Matthew]

John Evans.

[Chris Reivers]

John Evans. And I. God, I hope he's still alive. I don't know, but he. He was way ahead of the curve. But anyway, I wonder if this is all a prelude to something that I think Trump wouldn't even know about.

[Matthew]

But do you mean taking over our country? I don't know how. There's too much resistance, and that would be something that would solidify the country. Don't you guys think that?

[Kenny Olson]

They certainly don't have the ability to.

[Matthew]

Run the country, but they can mess with the grid. I agree with that. They can shut down banks and computers and whatever, but then. Okay, then what? We don't stand around looking at each other saying, what do we do? Let's fight.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, we're getting a long way from Ilhan Omar and the syringe, but that. That incident is an example that leaves you creating scenarios in your mind, leaving you creating scenarios of plausibility, deniability. Would someone really do that? I believe the desire to continue to live on the third rail is incredibly strong. I don't know if it's strong enough to have engineered that bit of theater we saw last night, but that's what it turned out to be. By the way, gratefully on her behalf, it did not turn into danger. It was a theatrical vignette. It had nothing to do with the fellow who presumably represented danger, could barely stand up. She was so confident in her own self that she wanted to charge the guy. It was a theatrical vignette. I'm not saying it wasn't real. I'm saying we don't know anymore what's real. We just don't know. And it's. It's incredibly frustrating.

[Matthew]

Do you think?

[Chris Reivers]

I mean, we have to Go back to what John brought up. Presumably, this fellow will go to jail. Would he have signed up for that or. Or will you never hear from this guy again?

[Kenny Olson]

Bingo, bing.

[Chris Reivers]

This guy completely disappear. I don't mean eliminate it from earth. I mean, you know, if you say, you know, he's living in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

[Kenny Olson]

No, no, Democrat. No, there'll be a big showy trial. You know, this isn't to show what.

[Matthew]

Happens when you attack justice.

[Kenny Olson]

They're gonna be.

[Joe Sushore]

Yeah, I guess I. I make an example. I can't get away from the fact that if this was. If this really was an attack. And I'm gonna be serious here for a second. If this was really.

[Chris Reivers]

And you haven't been.

[Joe Sushore]

No, I totally believe this was staged. That's not theater. I absolutely 100% believe this was stage.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm not prepared to go there.

[Joe Sushore]

But if it wasn't. And she had that same reaction, she showed no fear in her face.

[Chris Reivers]

Maybe she's a fearless woman.

[Joe Sushore]

Maybe that's the case. But if you're a politician and you claim to be under the microscope that you're under, and you claim to be under the attack all the time that you claim to be under, you wouldn't have reacted that way. You wouldn't have ran towards this guy. You would have ran away from him. Well, or stepped. Not ran, but stepped towards this guy.

[Matthew]

Is it possible that she. At that town hall meeting, and I wouldn't put it past her team to do this, to have certified lefties or people that would be like minded to be in the crowd so she didn't have to be in.

[Joe Sushore]

It would have been a selective crowd in the first place. And this guy was sitting in the front row, in front of the podium.

[Kenny Olson]

Him, I'm sorry, go to jail.

[Joe Sushore]

I don't buy any of this.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, but he's got to go to jail.

[Matthew]

But five years is the max. They might say he's mentally.

[Chris Reivers]

Are you willing to give up five years?

[Kenny Olson]

Hell no.

[Joe Sushore]

He squirted her with a squirt gun. And let's stop calling it a syringe.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, it was a shrine, but it.

[Joe Sushore]

Had no needle on it.

[Kenny Olson]

But it was a squirt gun.

[John Heights]

And he's been charged with a felony.

[Chris Reivers]

Third degree of soul.

[Joe Sushore]

Let's follow the story, gentlemen. That's all I'm gonna say.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, here's trouble.

[Matthew]

Filling the syringe like I do with Trey when I get that medicine up there.

[John Heights]

Here's what this reminds me of. All the conspiracy crap. Okay? Do you remember the Paul Pelosi story. Yes, this is exactly the reaction of some people, and it was 100% wrong. Including the president and his family, you know, and none of us. We got five people here who do not agree with Ilhan Omar about anything, basically. So it's not like we're defending Ilhan Omar. It's just the conspiracy thing.

[Chris Reivers]

It's hard to.

[John Heights]

It's the same thing. It's the same exact thing that happened with Paul Pelosi's story.

[Chris Reivers]

Interestingly, though, she does have a history of confrontations. She does have a long history of either sharing with us a confrontation she had or reporting one, or people giving her grief and whatnot. But. But I think what, John, you. Correct me. What you're arguing is that you're crabbering. I said something earlier. Nothing can be what it seems.

[John Heights]

Exactly.

[Chris Reivers]

What this is is some crackpot try to shoot her with some bug juice out of a squirt gun.

[John Heights]

Exactly.

[Chris Reivers]

End of story.

[Kenny Olson]

It depends on what is is.

[Joe Sushore]

But the thing is, if it was anybody other than Ilhan, I could go along with you. Everything about this woman is fraudulent.

[John Heights]

What if it was Paul Pelosi?

[Joe Sushore]

Well, but he's not an elected official.

[John Heights]

Well, I know, but we had the same reaction, some of us.

[Matthew]

But what happened? Whatever happened to that guy?

[John Heights]

That guy went to prison, okay? He got convicted and went to prison.

[Joe Sushore]

So, John, are you trying to say that you don't believe that any part of this could be raised under suspicion? Is that what you're trying to say?

[John Heights]

I would say, like Joe said, I would go with that theory.

[Kenny Olson]

Chris. I really want it to be true, but I don't think it is.

[John Heights]

For now, I would go with the theory that it is what it appears, and if it's more, it's gonna come out.

[Joe Sushore]

Okay, then can we all just agree.

[Chris Reivers]

He did, he did create a little confessional to his neighbor saying that he.

[Matthew]

Was going to the events.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm going to this thing, man. I might get arrested. Now, why the neighbor didn't follow up and say, what are you talking about?

[Joe Sushore]

Will you make sure the checks in the mailbox wouldn't you think I'm gonna.

[John Heights]

Be in jail, wouldn't you think? If you were his neighbor, wouldn't you think, Ah, he's not doing that.

[Matthew]

He's a crackpot.

[Chris Reivers]

In fact, if you knew him, he'd probably. Okay, we'll see you, Elmer.

[John Heights]

Yeah, see you, goofball.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, he would have said to him, they said, okay, Kenny, see at the fair.

[Kenny Olson]

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[Joe Sushore]

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[Joe Sushore]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Matthew]

Offensive. That's all I can say.

[Joe Sushore]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Joe Sushore]

Okay, yeah, maybe. Is she an employee?

[Chris Reivers]

She needs some money, a customer.

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Kenny Olson]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[Matthew]

Were your knife when you spread the for.

[Joe Sushore]

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[Chris Reivers]

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[John Heights]

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[Kenny Olson]

I don't want your Greasy fingers in there.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Matthew]

I mean, what can I do?

[Chris Reivers]

Kenny? This is pathetic. You're.

[Kenny Olson]

You're supposed to let John do the news. What's wrong with you?

[Chris Reivers]

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[Matthew]

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[John Heights]

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[Joe Sushore]

Thank you, Johnny.

[John Heights]

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[Chris Reivers]

What'd we get?

[John Heights]

They acquired right handed pitcher Jace Kaminska.

[Chris Reivers]

Ever heard of him?

[John Heights]

And money from the Colorado Rockies. The reason I do this trade is they got rid of a twin. We all know they traded. Well, first they traded Pearson. Oh, they had already put him on waivers. And they also traded Eddie Julian in this round.

[Chris Reivers]

Not Eddie.

[Josh Arnold]

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[John Heights]

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[Matthew]

Was this approved by the senior executive, Joe Polad?

[Joe Sushore]

I'm sure it was. Okay, you might. I'll. I'll show you who Ed.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't really need to know.

[Joe Sushore]

Eduardo Julian is the guy where he get in the batter's box. And if a pitch was a whisker hair outside.

[Matthew]

Oh no, no.

[John Heights]

Coming at him.

[Matthew]

Come on.

[Chris Reivers]

Good.

[Matthew]

Now we know pitcher.

[Joe Sushore]

No, he's a. He's a weak hitting. Below average first baseman.

[John Heights]

Yeah, exactly. He either strike out or hit home run. And the home runs went down way a lot last year. So anyway, let's go to the news now. A story we've been talking about ad nauseum, as they say. Democratic Representative Elon Omar Elon Ilhan Omar was sprayed with an unknown substance at a town hall meeting in North Minneapolis last night by a man quickly grabbed by security guards. By the way, that one security guard, the black leather, he was a big, big fellow.

[Joe Sushore]

He wasn't messing around.

[John Heights]

The guy that grabbed him later booked into Hennepin county jail on suspicion of third degree assault. Omar had been delivering prepared remarks calling for the abolishment of the U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency and the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when she was interrupted by the man identified as fin 55 year old Anthony Kazmierczyk, who sprayed at her with a syringe only from only a few feet away. After the man was removed, Omar continued. Her remarks took questions from the audience. Kazmierczyk followed multiple right leaning accounts on X including libs of TikTok, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro and Tim Pool. On Facebook, he had changed his profile picture to President Trump multiple times. Regularly criticized Democratic politicians like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a lawyer with Omar.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm neurotic enough that had that been sprayed on me, I would be freaking out about what it was.

[John Heights]

Yeah, you'd have taken to the hospital.

[Chris Reivers]

I would have been in a fetal.

[Matthew]

Position like Silkwood where they sprayed her down.

[John Heights]

Here's why.

[Joe Sushore]

I will come around to your side. I don't know if you had this in there because this has just been updated from the Starter Tribune. The Minneapolis Police Department has now said that the FBI has taken over the lead in investigating this entire incident with Ilhan Omar being sprayed. So you know what? If the FBI says this guy's nuts, I am now on your guys's team.

[John Heights]

I'm not sure about that with the FBI.

[Matthew]

I was just gonna say, how are the lefties gonna be with the FBI taking charge of this investigation?

[Joe Sushore]

Well, I mean, she is a sitting congressman.

[Matthew]

I would agree with that. But she doesn't like this administration.

[John Heights]

Capitol Police immediately released a statement last night. I don't know if you saw that.

[Joe Sushore]

I did not.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, I did. I read it to you. Yeah, I read the whole damn thing.

[Matthew]

So then when. So the law.

[John Heights]

We don't listen.

[Matthew]

So the locals won't have any jurisdict. This will be.

[Chris Reivers]

Apparently we don't let locals do anything anymore.

[John Heights]

Okay.

[Joe Sushore]

I love you guys.

[Chris Reivers]

We don't do a local job. Well, we're done.

[Matthew]

We're done with it.

[Chris Reivers]

We don't use it. They go now.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[John Heights]

President Trump said he would review the federal investigation into Alex Preddy's death himself.

[Chris Reivers]

He said, are you going to take over?

[John Heights]

Yeah, apparently he said, we're doing a big investigation. Quote, I want to see the investigation. When asked by reporters about whether or not Preddy's death was justified. I'm going to be watching over and I want a very honorable and honest investigation. I have to see it myself. Trump said he did not believe Preddy was acting as an assassin. Remember, that term was used by Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller. Just hours after the assassination. Two federal officers fired shots during the encounter that killed ICU News ICU nurse Alex Brady over the weekend. According to a Customs and Border Protection official he told that to. Yesterday, a border patrol officer and a CBP officer each fired Glock pistols. According to the notice, investigators from CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility conducted the analysis, based on a review of body worn camera footage and agency documentation. Law requires the agency to inform relevant congressional committees about deaths in CBP custody within 72 hours. Meanwhile, Borders are Tom Holman is in the Twin Cities. Neither President Trump nor Homan characterized what was talked about in separate meetings with Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry. However, both the Minnesota leaders revealed what they asked of Homan. In a statement after his meeting with Homan at the Capitol, Governor Walz said he reiterated Minnesota's priorities impartial investigations into the Minneapolis shootings involving federal agents, a swift, significant reduction in the number of federal forces in Minnesota and an end of the campaign of retribution against against Minnesota. He did not say how Holman reacted to any of that, but said they agreed on the need for an ongoing dialogue. Holman then met for 30 minutes with Mayor Fry, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O' Hara at an undisclosed location outside Minneapolis. In his statement, the mayor said he had requests similar to those of the governor, reiterating that his main ask is for Operation Metro Surge to come to an end as quickly as possible. On Tuesday night, Homan posted on X about the meeting, saying, today I met with Governor Walls, Mayor Frye and top law enforcement officials to talk about the issues on the ground in Minnesota. We all agree we need to support our law enforcement officers and get criminals off the streets. While we don't agree on everything, those meetings were a productive starting point and I look forward to more conversations with key stakeholders in the days ahead.

[Chris Reivers]

I I say the following for purposes of teasing Teasing the show okay, I have come across a story that perhaps is the saddest. Oh, no indication yet I'm being serious that the US Is over. I'll share it later. I can hardly win.

[Matthew]

How do you keep a tease right there?

[Chris Reivers]

I'm sorry, it's very dear to me.

[Kenny Olson]

Very striking Post Office how much have the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor of the state added to the the protesting, the, the rioting?

[John Heights]

Are they.

[Kenny Olson]

Are they to blame?

[Chris Reivers]

I would say quite a bit. I would say quite a bit. Inflating quite a bit.

[Joe Sushore]

Yeah, they're not helping, that's for sure.

[John Heights]

Update to a story from yesterday. That judge's order we talked about, remember, directing the head of U.S. immigration and Customs to appear in court is now moot after the man at the center of the custody was released as custody, as we assumed yesterday would have happen, U.S. district Court Judge Patrick Schultz filed his order to ICE's Acting Director Todd Lyons on Monday over his agency's failure to comply with judicial orders. The order from Schultz, who was appointed by George W. Bush, stemmed from the arrest of an Ecuadorian citizen in Minnesota. That person has now been released from custody.

[Kenny Olson]

There's good news here that we successfully killed about 10, 15 minutes yesterday with that topic.

[Chris Reivers]

What topic?

[Matthew]

Eduardo. Eduardo from Ecuador.

[Kenny Olson]

Exactly, Joe, Exactly. You know what?

[Joe Sushore]

That just was right there. Royce at the fair. Another pre recorded interview. I gotta knock out about 20 minutes.

[Kenny Olson]

We knocked out about 15 minutes yesterday.

[Chris Reivers]

What topic?

[Kenny Olson]

Exhausting that topic.

[Matthew]

I might be putting in for an hour at least because I was yesterday.

[Chris Reivers]

You know, first thing Height said is you put that down.

[Matthew]

Yeah, I'm putting that down.

[Kenny Olson]

I think listening counts.

[Chris Reivers]

You should get paid and interacting.

[Matthew]

Giving you guys all these show ideas throughout. An hour and a half. Show's dragging without me, guys.

[John Heights]

Meanwhile, the administration, they're. They're kind of fighting now about this whole thing. Stephen Miller said Border Patrol agents might not have followed the administration's instructions and the events that led to that shooting in Minneapolis, a rare retreat from one of President Trump's top aids and immigration hardliners. In a written statement, he responded to questions that are swirling about why both he and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem swiftly accused Preddy of wanting to massacre border agents when video showed no evidence of that. He said the initial statement from DHS was based on reports from CBP on the ground he gave that statement to Axios. Additionally, the White House provided clear guidance to DHS that the extra personnel that had been sent to Minnesota for force protection should be used for conducting fugitive operations to create a physical barrier between the arrest teams and the disruptor. Disruptors. We are evalu. The CBP team may not have privately or may not have followed. Excuse me. That protocol. Meanwhile, Noam is saying she was only echoing Miller's language and following his orders. According to Axios, Miller's statement sidestepped his own role, but said the DHS statement was rooted in cbp.

[Chris Reivers]

What's cbp?

[John Heights]

Customs and Border Patrol.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, so we got too many agencies, right.

[John Heights]

Of acronyms. 99 protesters who were arrested last week demonstrating at the airport. Rook told us about that. Remember, Are now facing misdemeanor citations.

[Chris Reivers]

Were they them priests?

[John Heights]

That's yes. Ministers.

[Chris Reivers]

Ministers, yes.

[John Heights]

The protest, organized in large part by local clergy, aimed to draw attention to airline companies contracting with the federal government to remove U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees from Minnesota. They did have a permit to be there, but they were arrested because the event and went outside the area they were supposed to protest in. Those who Were arrested, received citations for trespassing and failure to comply.

[Chris Reivers]

That the main terminal or not the main one?

[Matthew]

That's the main one. And they were on the other side of the stanchions where they should not have been. Everybody else was lawfully protesting. The other ones were on the other side.

[Kenny Olson]

Thinking about the decision to protest like that. And I. I have a kind of a GL based question and I wouldn't think of this if I didn't work with you so much such if I get arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for protesting, is that going to affect my auto insurance rates? And I'm not being funny, I'm being serious.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't understand.

[Matthew]

That's not a moving violation.

[Kenny Olson]

I don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

You mean if you're protesting in your car?

[Kenny Olson]

I mean if you have a record, a misdemeanor record, does that affect your ask you.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know.

[John Heights]

I don't.

[Joe Sushore]

I don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

But that thing you drive. I wouldn't worry about it.

[John Heights]

Right.

[Chris Reivers]

You even have that insured?

[Kenny Olson]

181,000 miles.

[Chris Reivers]

A lot of miles.

[Kenny Olson]

I only owe $3,000 on it.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, wow.

[John Heights]

Oh, what a great feel.

[Chris Reivers]

I love getting close.

[Kenny Olson]

I love this country.

[Matthew]

You're one payment closer.

[Kenny Olson]

I love this country so much.

[Chris Reivers]

What year truck is it?

[Kenny Olson]

It's a 2016.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm damn near new.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm not upside down new.

[John Heights]

One more local story. Two special elections we told you about yesterday held in Minnesota, both in heavy Democratic areas. And as expected, Democratic candidates won easily. The first race was in District 64A which covers part of St. Paul. Republican Dan Walsh and dfler Meg Luger Nikolai were competing for the seat vacated by colleague here who is now St. Paul's mayor.

[Chris Reivers]

Her.

[John Heights]

Pardon me. Not here. Luger Nikolai emerged victorious, captured capturing 95.28% of the votes. Walsh receiving 4.36%.

[Chris Reivers]

That's unbelievable. This town is but not a surprise.

[Kenny Olson]

I mean if you look at the.

[Chris Reivers]

District, nobody's ever heard of this woman. She had a DFL sign.

[John Heights]

District 47. A while there wasn't really a battle because only the Democrat was running. Shelley Buck running unopposed. Buck won the seat with 97.55.

[Joe Sushore]

Tough to lose, isn't it?

[John Heights]

When you run?

[Chris Reivers]

Hell, I'd bring back cat burglar.

[Joe Sushore]

Right? Why not?

[Kenny Olson]

Is she Shelly Buck from the famous Buck family we know of in the Twin Cities? Yeah, that's a good last name. Buck.

[John Heights]

Buck.

[Kenny Olson]

I like that.

[Joe Sushore]

Yeah. Uncle.

[John Heights]

Uncle Buck. Why don't we take a quick break here and hear from Mr. Reavers.

[Joe Sushore]

I want to talk about we are Nuts and we are nuts.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm sure you do.

[Joe Sushore]

I'm only gonna show the graphic momentarily because I want the Soul Man, Kenny Olson.

[Chris Reivers]

No, no, no.

[Joe Sushore]

You're on the camera there. Soul Man. So, ladies and gentlemen, here's how easy it is to open up a canister.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, he did it finally. It took him a. You got a half hour to do it. Now he's drinking.

[Matthew]

He's drinking cashews babies.

[Chris Reivers]

He used the guarantees that no one will use that.

[Joe Sushore]

And I believe he opened it with the same pocket knife.

[Matthew]

I never want to see that much of a.

[Chris Reivers]

Your tongue.

[Joe Sushore]

It's snack season for the big game coming up, so stock up right now with the silos of your favorite snacks from we are Nuts and We Are Not.

[Chris Reivers]

What are they called? Silos.

[Joe Sushore]

I'm calling them that. I don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I think you're. That's very apt.

[Joe Sushore]

Because it's bigger than the regular container, I understand.

[Matthew]

Yeah, but this one's full of tortillas.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm glad you explained that because I didn't know why you were calling it a silo.

[Kenny Olson]

You know what it resembles, don't you, Chris?

[Chris Reivers]

A silo.

[Kenny Olson]

Uh huh. That's what they call it.

[Joe Sushore]

Got a silo full of cashews.

[Matthew]

Yeah, and tortillas.

[Joe Sushore]

Anywho, go to wearenutsmn.com and place your order. But you can also see them at Fratelloni's hardware and garden stores, Mac's Hardware, Lund's and Barley's, Kowalski's markets, Cub Foods, Colburn's County Market.

[Matthew]

You know, if you are entertaining for the Super Bowls, anybody. Here we go.

[Chris Reivers]

He's gonna now do the ad.

[Joe Sushore]

Here we go. What are you gonna. Are you doing sliders?

[Matthew]

You need the extras. And don't just. You can just get regular peanuts too from we are Nuts. And they will just be as well received. Do you want regular peanut shoes?

[John Heights]

Oh, yes.

[Matthew]

They got everything.

[Kenny Olson]

They're not mixed.

[Chris Reivers]

All the mixed nuts.

[Joe Sushore]

Here's how Big Jim, the founder, the creator of we are Nuts, got my boys hooked. He said, do you guys like cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal? Cinnamon toffee peanuts.

[Matthew]

That's a cheap trick.

[Chris Reivers]

This ad must end.

[Joe Sushore]

Okay, Wearenuts. Com. Place your order today and let them know that you heard about them on the garagelogic podcast. Johnny, quick update. I got this from Liz Collin talking about the Ilhan Omar situation breaking. This is not quite an hour ago. Sources tell me that the substance was apple cider vinegar. That Representative Ilhan Omar was spayed with last night at last night's event and that a hazmat team has also confirmed that.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, thankfully, then, that was not ruinous.

[Joe Sushore]

But apple cider vinegar is really good for you, by the way.

[Matthew]

It's pretty good for rosacea. It is for my rosacea.

[John Heights]

I love apple cider vinegar every morning right now, Johnny. No, no, I don't drink it.

[Chris Reivers]

You drink it.

[John Heights]

No. In summer, I cut up cucumbers and put a bunch of apple cider vinegar on it, and I eat them like.

[Matthew]

Crazy and people stay.

[John Heights]

Joe's not impressed. Look at Joe.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm not a cucumber.

[Joe Sushore]

Well, we were just trying to give Joe some culinary advice, Johnny, about a meal.

[Chris Reivers]

He. We're not going into that now. We're trying to finish the show and do the news. And I got a very nice garnish. I got a lot of alarms here for you coming up.

[Kenny Olson]

I like good pickle.

[Chris Reivers]

You like a radish. I don't like a reddish.

[Kenny Olson]

I'm neutral with radishes.

[John Heights]

You don't like radishes or cucumbers?

[Chris Reivers]

You know what, John? I like pickles.

[Matthew]

Your bride makes some good pickles.

[John Heights]

You know, I look forward to every farmer's market in summer, Joe, just so I can go get a couple big bags of cucumbers and even for a week.

[Chris Reivers]

Yuck.

[John Heights]

Oh, I love them.

[Kenny Olson]

Any of those big radishes you can barely get in your mouth?

[John Heights]

It's your story, Kenny.

[Matthew]

Yep.

[John Heights]

Why don't we move on to the rest of the.

[Matthew]

Please do, John.

[Chris Reivers]

I wish you would.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushore]

Canadian.

[John Heights]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said yesterday he told President Trump he meant what he said in his speech at Davos and told him Canada plans to diversify away from the United States with a dozen new trade deals. Carney rolled his eyes and rejected U.S. treasury Secretary Scott Besant's contention to Fox News that he aggressively walked back any comments at the World Economic Forum. To be absolutely clear, he said, and I said this to the president. I meant what I said when I was there. Canada is the first country to understand the change in U. S. Trade policy. He added, and we're responding to that. At the World Economic Forum last week, Carney condemned economic coercion by great powers on smaller countries without mentioning the US Or President Trump's name. The prime minister received widespread praise and attention for the remarks upstaging Trump at the gathering.

[Chris Reivers]

Can I ask you something? This Justin Trudeau fella, didn't he have a wife and family?

[Joe Sushore]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

Kids?

[Kenny Olson]

He left them on Christmas morning with.

[Chris Reivers]

A half pack of cigarettes and a full tank of gas. For Katy Perry, that tells you all you need to know about him.

[Kenny Olson]

Unless Katie maybe, you know now there's.

[Chris Reivers]

No maybe or, you know, know. The guy is.

[Matthew]

He doesn't know about Katie. There's a little.

[Chris Reivers]

He's a scoundrel.

[Matthew]

I'm not talking about him.

[John Heights]

The number of Russian and Ukrainian troops killed, wounded or missing during nearly four years of war is almost at 2 million, according to a new study. The study, published by the center for Strategic and International studies in Washington, D.C. said that nearly 1.2 million Russian troops and close to 600,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed or wounded or were missing for the entirety of the war. Casualty figures have been hard to ascertain because. Because Russia is believed to routinely undercount its dead and injured, and Ukraine does not disclose official figures, the study relied on American and British government estimates, among other sources.

[Chris Reivers]

Think how strange that war is. There's a place in the world where right now, if you're walking in the woods, you might just get shot.

[Kenny Olson]

It's so ridiculous.

[Chris Reivers]

Or strapped to a telephone pole upside down. There's a place in the world where this just goes out on 24 hours a day.

[Kenny Olson]

How are we still living like this?

[Chris Reivers]

I don't know. It's just amazing. It's horrible.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[John Heights]

New information. One more local story. We talked. Remember last week we talked about the Minnesota Country Club Festival.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes. Down on Harriet Island. A musical event, John.

[John Heights]

And we didn't have a lineup, but now they've done the lineup.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, it's good to always get the.

[John Heights]

Lineup, headlining a really good band. If you're not familiar with them, I suggest you get familiar. The Red Clay Strays.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[John Heights]

And Treaty Oak Revival.

[Chris Reivers]

I never heard of them.

[John Heights]

Also Jesse Murph, Minnesota's own Trampled By Turtles. The wonderful Charlie Crockett.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, yeah.

[John Heights]

Stephen Wilson Jr. Jesse Wells, several others. I don't know. Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country. Daniel Donato, fabulous guitar player. And the one that doesn't seem to fit to me. Perhaps. You know I'm wrong. The beats were boys.

[Chris Reivers]

Always available.

[Matthew]

One of these things is not like the other.

[Chris Reivers]

Is this a country music festival?

[John Heights]

It's. It's called the Country Club Festival. It's supposed to be roots music and alternative country.

[Chris Reivers]

That's the. And unfortunately, that poor version of the. Of the Beach Boys is the state fair version. You know, they're kind of lightweight.

[Kenny Olson]

She comes from Silver Spoon. Golden Rule, Private school. Never Miss Sunday Church. Oh, I come from.

[Chris Reivers]

He's talking about Katy Perry. Oh, that's red clay stripe.

[Kenny Olson]

I come from blue collar low dollar out here where concrete meets old red dirt.

[John Heights]

Yep, there you go.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep.

[John Heights]

US Consumer confidence declining sharply in January, hitting its lowest level since 2014 as Americans grow concerned about their financial prospects. The conference board said Tuesday its consumer confidence index cratered 9.7 points points to 84.5 in January, following below even the lowest readings during the COVID 19 pandemic. Amazon announced yesterday. Remember when the Amazon fresh supermarkets to Amazon go are going to be the big thing.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[John Heights]

They're closing them all, huh? All 72 nationwide, reflecting a shift, they said, toward its grocery delivery business and Whole Foods expansion. Analysts say the change underscores their emphasis on shopping experiences that better align line with customer preferences. National Transportation Safety Board yesterday determined last year's deadly mid air collision between that American Airlines jet and an army helicopter was mostly caused by the FAA's placement of a helicopter route in the approach path of a Ronald Reagan National Airport Runway.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, that makes sense.

[John Heights]

Federal investigators detailed how the helicopter's blade severed the jets with wings, sending both aircraft into the Potomac river and killing 67 people. The aircraft's routes reportedly allowed just 75ft of vertical separation below the 1,000ft usually required. The FAA allegedly failed to vet the paths despite years of pilot warnings and ignored air traffic controllers calls to reduce Reagan's air traffic. Since the crash one year ago Thursday, the FAA has revised helicopter routes and reduced arrivals at Reagan. Meanwhile, a spending package with 2500 more controllers could stall this week over immigration enforcement provisions. I couldn't help but notice how I changed route to route three times in that story.

[Chris Reivers]

That's all right.

[John Heights]

Which one's correct?

[Matthew]

A route is something you do, a route is something you travel on.

[Chris Reivers]

I'd go route farthest.

[Kenny Olson]

Furthest.

[Chris Reivers]

Furthest is in addition to farther is distance.

[Kenny Olson]

Gets me every morning.

[Chris Reivers]

Thank you, John Sugar Ray. I have a story that predicts the end of the United States as we know it.

[Joe Sushore]

But first I need to hear from Matthew.

[Matthew]

Thanks for heating up Joe in this country. And you know, sometimes you want to cool them down.

[Kenny Olson]

Is it heating up season?

[Matthew]

Tis the season for heating up, you know.

[Chris Reivers]

Just amazing.

[Matthew]

Thank you, Rick, for that segue that you sent me on on text. And Joe loves it and will live by that. Of course, if he needs to cool down his home in the summer months.

[Chris Reivers]

What the hell are you blabbering about?

[Matthew]

You need to get your air conditioning ready.

[Chris Reivers]

It's 20 below.

[Matthew]

The other day when you talked about your house being 7,000 degrees and you thought something was wrong with your heater.

[Chris Reivers]

No, I never said that.

[Matthew]

I know, I just made it up. But it sounds pretty good for the.

[John Heights]

Welter ad, doesn't it?

[Matthew]

Why don't you tell me if your heater will not turn off or won't turn off?

[Kenny Olson]

Let's call it a froth. Furnace.

[Matthew]

Furnace. Okay. Heater. Heater is what you have in your car, right?

[Chris Reivers]

I have a heater as well. You got a heater?

[Matthew]

Yeah, if you got one, they can work on it.

[Joe Sushore]

He's on a heater right now.

[Matthew]

Over 116. Almost 120 years of wonderful, wonderful service. Four generations. Well, it's technically 116, but it's pretty close to 120. I'm gonna round up to 120.

[Chris Reivers]

All right?

[Matthew]

And I think that those in the metro area, in the twin cities that have worked with welter will agree with.

[John Heights]

With me.

[Matthew]

Just like when I work with them, that they do a great job. They come in. Their estimate was spot on. Same day service. If you are in trouble, 24. 7 emergency service is available. The welter family still runs it locally. Here again, four generations, if you want to call them a human being, will answer the phone during business hours. 612-825-6867. More importantly, remember the website welterheating.com this winter to heat up your shelter or this summer to cool down your shelter. Remember the fine folks at Ray Nuelta.

[Chris Reivers]

Prepare first, Daniel. The earth is not your mother. The Joe Sucere show. The golf shows come In Friday the 13th.

[Kenny Olson]

February 13th.

[Chris Reivers]

We'll be there. That's the North American banking company Minnesota golf show at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Friday, February 13th through Sunday, February 15th. Greatest chance in the world to get, you know, socks, shirts, a new driver, all the stuff you need. Great, great deals on golf apparel. You can get lessons from PGA professional. We'll have the thing on tv. You know, pebble beach will be at the lounge there, the 19th hole.

[Matthew]

What's new in Ken's life? You just played 18 holes of golf with them, and what's going on? Well, he got a new driver.

[Chris Reivers]

He got a new driver. Here's the best part about the golf. Each ticket purchase comes with 15 free GreenSpeed passes.

[Matthew]

Come on.

[Chris Reivers]

It says access to. I suppose that means you get them on your phone or something.

[Joe Sushore]

Yeah, you got to set it up with the players.

[Chris Reivers]

John Randall Viking, former viking and a pro football hall of famer, will be there. 15 free. That could cover your summer of golf.

[Joe Sushore]

That'll cover me for about the next nine years.

[Chris Reivers]

That's five times a month for three months.

[Joe Sushore]

That's a pretty good deal. Guys you know are playing golf right now.

[Chris Reivers]

Take this minute. To purchase tickets, visit mngolfshow.com mngolfshow, which is one word, mngolfshow.com and we'll see you there. Friday, February 13th I'm buying it. I'm buying. I. I don't even have to buy to get in because we get to go in.

[Joe Sushore]

You're still getting.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm buying one to get the 15 green streets.

[Joe Sushore]

It's a pretty good deal.

[Chris Reivers]

It's a hell of a deal. Do you have any somber music? Something that tells us it's. It's sad.

[Kenny Olson]

That funeral dirge Dun dun dun dun.

[Chris Reivers]

Dateline Fairfield, Ohio Just play it under me A mail carrier said he was suspended from his job without pay amid an internal investigation when he expressed safety concerns about going out in the winter storm. Cincinnati was hit with snowfall and dangerous cold over the weekend because of the winter storm. After being snowed in, Jason Thompson left the house in the morning to drive to a USPS facility in the northern Cincinnati suburb of Fairfield, Ohio. He had worked as a mail carrier for more than two decades. Thompson said he left early and it still took him 45 minutes to get to work when it usually takes only 20. He said the roads were snow covered and dangerous. A lot of people aren't aware of what we experience every day. That's fine. As carriers, we kind of get used to that expectation, he said. When Thompson got to work, he found trucks buried in snow and no packages to deliver. Interesting. Our parking lot was poorly plowed. All the plowing was covering all the postal trucks, kind of burying them, he said. Well, USPS carriers are typically expected to clean off their own trucks. If it's two feet on the sides, we're buried. We need more resources. A shovel isn't going to do it. It's strenuous on men and women of different ages to accomplish it. This is. You're, you're, you're hearing a guy describing the end of America.

[Kenny Olson]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Thompson said there was no communication from corporate to the carrier, so he didn't know what would be waiting for him when he got to work. This is a mail carrier that managed to survive for 20 years.

[Matthew]

You don't know.

[Chris Reivers]

You get your ass out there, pal, and deliver the mail. Why do you think I hold you in reverence? You think they gave up in the 1880s when the pony Express was oh, they Kept flying. You think they gave up during World War I? No. Do you think they gave up when they were. When they were air raids?

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushore]

When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Matthew]

What'd they do?

[Chris Reivers]

The volume of the mail packages is probably going to be double or triple with another delay. You going to be expected to do more volume in the same conditions. He said. I am so embarrassed for you, Thompson. I feel shame. Thompson expressed his frustrations in a Facebook post about winter safety. Wow. Oh my God. Oh my God. Thompson. Please say it isn't so. He said you USPS contacted him shortly after he posted and told him to take it down or there could be repercussions. Insult. He said USPS put him on emergency placement without pay while they investigate. WXIX Radio reached out to usps. USPS said it delivers mail in cold weather. Thank you. To ensure delivery of critical items. Thank you. Thank you. And that employee safety is a top priority. Thank you. It said it continuously monitors weather conditioning and that delivery decisions are made with employee safety in mind. The safety of our employees is a top priority, particularly during the cold. Thompson said he put his career on the line to help those who are too scared to spend speak up. You mean to tell me he's a martyr?

[Kenny Olson]

A warrior?

[Chris Reivers]

You mean to tell me that he was speaking for postal carriers who had doubts about their ability to deliver the mail in a blizzard? They had doubts. This isn't meant to be a negative thing, he said. No, this is for positive awareness. I want more resources, accountability and change within the post office. Not just in my post office, but nationwide. Are you kidding me?

[Matthew]

You gotta be kidding me.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't want you. I want people who look outside and say, my kind of weather.

[Matthew]

Exactly.

[Chris Reivers]

Here I come. I gotta deliver his Road and Track magazine. Shortly after WXIX aired Thompson's story Monday, he said he was told to come back to work tomorrow and he said he plans to be there. I weep. Jesus wept. As they say in the uk. Jesus wept.

[Kenny Olson]

Do you remember what Newman used to do from Seinfeld?

[Chris Reivers]

Just dump it in his livery?

[John Heights]

No.

[Matthew]

When it was raining, he wouldn't deliver the mail.

[Kenny Olson]

He'd call it sick. Because I don't work in the rain, Joe. Have you ever seen up in my area? They love making a big deal about how they used to deliver the mail. When they didn't have really good roads in the winter and they didn't have four wheel drive vehicles. They make a big deal of posting old photos of model A's that they put airplane big balloon tires on. And that's what they would get around.

[Chris Reivers]

That kept you real folks in Torn.

[Kenny Olson]

Effectively making the world's first monster trucks.

[Chris Reivers]

Right, Right. Or snowmobile almost.

[Kenny Olson]

How in the hell did they reach out the window to the mailbox when they were six feet above it in their monster model T? Nobody ever asked that question.

[Matthew]

That's a good question.

[Chris Reivers]

Maybe they had one of those grabbers.

[Joe Sushore]

May I share an email with you regarding the USPS story?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I'm heartbroken by it, Chris.

[Joe Sushore]

This is from Jennifer. She says Joe. Oh, isn't this a ray of hope? A government department that is still expected to come into work every day in bad weather on top of it.

[Chris Reivers]

Right? Yeah, you're right. But they. You got a sour apple in the grapes there.

[Kenny Olson]

I know the worst post office in the whole country. I wouldn't. And I would say more about sour. This horrible post office that I know a lot about. But I'm afraid of Richard.

[Chris Reivers]

I wouldn't do a say a.

[Kenny Olson]

To say anything.

[Chris Reivers]

I love. I have a USPS hat. Okay. And I have a shirt with the correct badge on it. All right.

[Joe Sushore]

Is it as neat as you're feeling? Golfy?

[Chris Reivers]

I already got my ali stamps, John.

[Kenny Olson]

Only the U.S. y. Only the U.S. postal Service would buy 5 million Jeeps that aren't four wheel drive.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, that was a mistake.

[Matthew]

Right?

[Chris Reivers]

What the hell. A lot of those front wheel drive Plymouth minivans. Yeah, yeah. Come on. I, I just.

[Matthew]

You gotta figure this.

[Chris Reivers]

You gotta have things that you believe in that you rely on.

[Kenny Olson]

We get our mail once every two weeks. It's like the pony express running through giant bag. Yeah, you gotta bring a two wheeler up to the box.

[Matthew]

It rained quite a bit this week. So we.

[Chris Reivers]

Only because they come to us.

[John Heights]

Wow.

[Chris Reivers]

All the way from Kiowaka, New Zealand, home of Tom and Jessica Lyman. However, temporarily track them@worldwide waftage.com and it's only because they're out there traveling that we do this. It was on this day, Joe.

[Joe Sushore]

Today is January 28th.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, on this day in 1890, farmers in Clark's Grove Grove, Freeborn county formed a dairy cooperative. The co op is not the state's first, but its success inspired other communities to use Clarks Grove's organizational system and its bylaws, which were written in Danish, as a model. Where's Freeborn County?

[Joe Sushore]

Isn't that Rochester way?

[Chris Reivers]

I think it is.

[Joe Sushore]

Hold on, I will look at.

[Matthew]

Look it up.

[Chris Reivers]

On this day, Jan.28th, the very next year, 1891, as a group of Ojibwe assembled for A ghost dance. Albert Lee.

[Joe Sushore]

Yeah, I was gonna say I misspoke. It's Albert Lee.

[John Heights]

Yep.

[Joe Sushore]

Thank you, Brook.

[Matthew]

Yep.

[Chris Reivers]

It's a group of Ojibwe assembled for a ghost dance. A rumor of an uprising at Lake of the woods spread, and many white settler colonists fled the Roseau Valley Valley. Upon investigation, Sheriff Oscar Youngren discovered that the gathering was peaceful. Fearing that the colonists might take revenge upon their return, a few Ojibwe fed and watered their animals in their absence, and I think a catastrophe was averted.

[Matthew]

Got it.

[John Heights]

That was only a year after Wounded Knee. And that's how that started doing a ghost dance there.

[Kenny Olson]

These.

[Chris Reivers]

These Swedes, they took off for the hills because they figured, we're in trouble. And then we know what's up. The. The Ojibwe said, huh, let's feed. Let's take care of these idiots that left their animals.

[Kenny Olson]

We're always the first ones to say.

[Chris Reivers]

Run for your lives. On this day in sports, disappointment, history.

[Joe Sushore]

Joe, who'd we lose to on January 28th?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, on this day. Day. It's a very important date in sports.

[Matthew]

Really?

[Chris Reivers]

1960. Any guesses? January 28th, 1960.

[John Heights]

Twin Senators move here.

[Joe Sushore]

No Vikings.

[Chris Reivers]

Minnesota accepted NFL bid for franchise.

[Joe Sushore]

And we'd be cursed ever since.

[Chris Reivers]

It hasn't worked out, has it?

[Kenny Olson]

No, it hasn't.

[Matthew]

Next year.

[John Heights]

Oh, it's been okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Mr. Green Bay.

[Matthew]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

On this day.

[Joe Sushore]

Well, you know, John's right. We're the winningest franchise with Oliver winning a Super Bowl.

[Chris Reivers]

On this day, January 1976, the kicks were given their name, the Minnesota Kicks.

[Joe Sushore]

Wasn't that just a non stop kegger party?

[Matthew]

Alan medicated.

[Chris Reivers]

The parking lot was packed, but nobody.

[Matthew]

Went to the game.

[Chris Reivers]

Some people went inside, but it was just.

[Matthew]

It was like going through downtown, around St. Paul, where you see Center Energy has the big poof of smoke. That's what the parking lot was at the Met Stadium.

[Chris Reivers]

On this day, January 28, 1985, Met Stadium demolished.

[Joe Sushore]

Why did they wait that long?

[Chris Reivers]

Maybe to see if that dump would hold up for at least five years.

[Joe Sushore]

It kept deflating.

[Matthew]

People kept coming to get stuff. It was down to nothing.

[Kenny Olson]

The arena, right?

[Chris Reivers]

No, no, no. Metropolitan ballpark.

[Kenny Olson]

Okay, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

On this day that stood till 1985. Oh, on this. I think there's a mall there now.

[Joe Sushore]

Yes.

[Chris Reivers]

On this day, Jan.28, 2001, former Viking offensive coordinator Brian Billick won Super Bowl 35 as head coach of the Ravens.

[John Heights]

Ravens.

[Matthew]

And that's something with my guy Matt Burke on the team.

[Joe Sushore]

No, on this day, Ravens no that was 2012. Burke was still with the Vikings in 01 on this day, January 28th.

[Matthew]

I knew it was something.

[Chris Reivers]

In 2011, the Twins announced that they would take the trees out of center field.

[Joe Sushore]

That's right. They were too distracting to the hitters.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't understand how that could even possibly have been approached.

[John Heights]

Problem.

[Chris Reivers]

They're dark green. Big deal.

[Joe Sushore]

Hit the ball.

[Chris Reivers]

Hit the ball.

[Matthew]

Why are you looking at the trees instead of the ball?

[Chris Reivers]

Hit the ball, catch the ball, throw the ball.

[Kenny Olson]

The worst thing about working here in the studio is I can't just log off and walk away.

[Matthew]

Or at least pretend you're. You're still engaged.

[Chris Reivers]

You're just sitting here pretending you're interested. I'm sorry about the absence of Daniel Strand. I want you to continue to persist. Pursue it.

[Joe Sushore]

I'm going to.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. That means nothing.

[Announcer]

That.

[Chris Reivers]

Wow. I guarantee your fault.

[Kenny Olson]

I guarantee you guys have the wrong email.

[Chris Reivers]

It's your fault. Reavers.

[Joe Sushore]

Okay. I accept full response.

[Kenny Olson]

You entered the wrong key.

[Chris Reivers]

You did something.

[Matthew]

I'd like to come to bat for my son, but I, I, I can't.

[Joe Sushore]

Let's.

[Chris Reivers]

It could be his fault.

[Matthew]

It might be. I'm not. Yeah.

[Joe Sushore]

Let's urge people to head on over to the Garage Logic YouTube channel where they and hit that subscribe button and join the thousands of people that are interacting with the show each day.

[Kenny Olson]

Us.

[Chris Reivers]

Awesome.

[Joe Sushore]

So there for you. And you know what?

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah.

[Joe Sushore]

You can also watch the show every day starting right around noon. There's also full segments and video shorts and even behind the scenes footage. Just search garage logic on YouTube along with all of our social media channels, which include Facebook, Instagram and X. And also sign up for the Daily Logician. That email comes right to your inbox each and every single day. And it includes the most recent episode of the podcast. Find out more and sign up [e-mail]. It is time once again that we check in with our guy, Mr. Money Talk. Josh Arnold is with us once again right here in Garage Logic. And now is the time for you to do the same. So do not delay, do exactly what I did and pick up that phone and dial 952-925-5608. That number once again is 952-925-5608. When you call that number, you're going to get Josh and he is there for you for that.

[John Heights]

Free.

[Joe Sushore]

Yes, I use the word free. 48 minute financial consultation with absolutely zero obligation. And he will always give you the straight talk. He will never give you the sugar. Coated advice. And he is on the line with us once again right here in garagelogic. And boy, it's Fed day today. And today it's also all about the number three.

[Josh Arnold]

Well Mag, that's three of the three of the magnificent seven report today after the close of the market. Chris, that's Microsoft Meta. You know, you might know Meta, as Facebook, Instagram Reels and WhatsApp and Tesla report, a lot of eyes are going to be focused on, on the, on two of the. Well, actually all three of these companies in the case of Microsoft and Meta, questions are going to be relative to the spending that they have been doing on artificial intelligence and are they going to be getting even though it's a short period of time, are they going to be getting a return on that investment? Both of these companies since their Last earnings reports three months ago are in correction territory, as in down 10% from where they were three months ago. And I would all say that from their highs these two stocks, Meta and Microsoft are close to bear market territory. So they've been down from their highs as investors large and small. Question the spending that these companies have been doing and whether or not they'll be able to get a return on that that spending both to build out data centers, to build up their artificial intelligence capabilities and to expand their businesses. In Microsoft's case, there's the additional concern because they do sell software that artificial intelligence can start replacing some of that that software software or make it easier not to use their product. We have seen that dimension play out as software as service Companies such as ServiceNow and Salesforce have seen their stocks definitely go into bear market territory, down 20% or more from their high. So a lot of questioning whether the money spent on software, particularly on a subscription basis is going to be worth it in the future, given the availability of artificial intelligence. Meta faces some similar challenges, but their challenges in addition because they're one of the larger advertisers and the question becomes how many subscribers are using users, do they still have or are they expanding and are they even going to monetize those users more? I think I talked earlier that Meta is experimenting, raising we'll say or having subscription packages around Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram and that subscription would provide a differentiated service test. Tesla Focus not going to be on the cars, going to be on robots and Robo tax and of course what Elon Musk has been been doing. There might even be some questions around their private company SpaceX which has been putting up the Starlink satellite. There is a strong likelihood that Fates X private company could come public later this year. There's also speculation that several of the artificial intelligence companies, namely OpenAI and Anthropic, both privately held, will also come public at some time this year. So a lot of speculation around that. Meantime, it's Fed day. After the Fed decision is announced, just after lunch comes the press conference conference call. All I'll say investors will await that with bated breath because that there'll be questions regarding the direction that the Fed is going to take for the next several months, particularly if as I expect, they do not cut interest rates at this meeting. And questions will become not only on cutting interest rates but around the strength of the dollar, what they are doing with their bond buying or bond selling program, little bit of chance for some additional volatility in the marketplace. Further, and this does complicate things for the balance of this week. You have the continuing resolution that if not passed Friday, Friday by Friday night. Government goes into a partial shutdown down over the weekend. Plenty of speculation around that. And then we'll add one other macro event, a carrier force we'll say is either heading or is building up and headed around Iran. That could add say a little bit more excitement and is one of the reasons that oil has been on the move upward. So do bear in mind by keeping keeping the asset allocation model that we talked about, keeping up to 30% in cash and the balance invested in growth companies, you should do very well, but not without the ups and downs that happen on a day to day basis.

[Joe Sushore]

Excellent advice as always, Mr. MoneyTalk. You heard him G ers. Now is the time for you to pick up the phone and to make the call for that free 48 minute financial consultation again with zero obligation. And you do that just like I did by dialing 959-255608 where you always get straight talk and never ever sugarcoated advice. Josh, once again, thank you so much for the time and the chat. Enjoy the rest of your day and we'll talk to you again tomorrow.

[Josh Arnold]

Thank you.

[John Heights]

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[Joe Sushore]

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[John Heights]

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[Chris Reivers]

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